Since your (evil) conscience becomes (as) an overseer to you and says, “Speak! Do not keep back your belief,”

چون موکل می‌شود برتو ضمیر ** که بگو تو اعتقادت وا مگیر

And, especially at times of anger and quarrelling, makes manifest your secret thought, hair by hair;

خاصه در هنگام خشم و گفت و گو ** می‌کند ظاهر سرت را مو بمو

Since wrong and injustice become your overseer and say, “Display me, O hands and feet,”

چون موکل می‌شود ظلم و جفا ** که هویدا کن مرا ای دست و پا

And since the (evil conscience which bears) witness to the secret thought seizes the reins—in particular at times of emotion and anger and revenge—

چون همی‌گیرد گواه سر لگام ** خاصه وقت جوش و خشم و انتقام

That One, then, who appoints this (conscience) as overseer, that ‘it may unfurl the banner of the secret on the field—2460

پس همان کس کین موکل می‌کند ** تا لوای راز بر صحرا زند

(Surely), then, He can also create, on the Day of Judgement, other overseers for the purpose of unfolding (the secret thoughts).

پس موکلهای دیگر روز حشر ** هم تواند آفرید از بهر نشر

O thou who hast entered most recklessly upon (a course of) injustice and malice, thy true nature is evident: this (advertisement of it) is not needed.

ای بده دست آمده در ظلم و کین ** گوهرت پیداست حاجت نیست این

It is not necessary to become celebrated for (doing) harm: they (who possess discernment) are acquainted with thy fiery (hellish) conscience.

نیست حاجت شهره گشتن در گزند ** بر ضمیر آتشینت واقف‌اند

Thy fleshly soul every moment emits a hundred sparks, saying, “Behold me! I am of the people of the Fire.

نفس تو هر دم بر آرد صد شرار ** که ببینیدم منم ز اصحاب نار

I am a part of the Fire: I go to my whole; I am not (composed of) light, so that I should go to the Lord”— 2465

جزو نارم سوی کل خود روم ** من نه نورم که سوی حضرت شوم

Even as this unjust and ungrateful man wrought so much confusion (made such a great disturbance) for the sake of a cow.

همچنان کین ظالم حق ناشناس ** بهر گاوی کرد چندین التباس

He carried off from him (the defendant) a hundred cows and a hundred camels this (wickedness) is the fleshly soul: O father, cut yourself asunder from it.

او ازو صد گاو برد و صد شتر ** نفس اینست ای پدر از وی ببر

Besides, never once did he make humble supplication to God: never once did a cry of “O Lord!” come from him in sorrow—

نیز روزی با خدا زاری نکرد ** یا ربی نامد ازو روزی بدرد

“O God, content my adversary: if I have inflicted loss upon him (yet) do Thou bestow profit (upon me)!

کای خدا خصم مرا خشنود کن ** گر منش کردم زیان تو سود کن

If T killed him by mistake, the (payment of the) blood-price falls on my kin: Thou hast been my spirit’s kin from (the Day of) Alast.”2470

گر خطا کشتم دیت بر عاقله‌ست ** عاقله‌ی جانم تو بودی از الست

He (God) does not give (worthless) stones in return for the pearls of contrition (nay), this, O noble spirit, is the justice of the fleshly soul.

سنگ می‌ندهد به استغفار در ** این بود انصاف نفس ای جان حر

How the people went forth to that tree.

برون رفتن به سوی آن درخت

When they went forth to that tree, he (David) said, “Tie his hands fast behind him,

چون برون رفتند سوی آن درخت ** گفت دستش را سپس بندید سخت

In order that I may bring to light his sin and crime, and may plant the banner of justice on the field.

تا گناه و جرم او پیدا کنم ** تا لوای عدل بر صحرا زنم

O dog,” said he, “you have killed his grandfather. You are a slave: by this means you have become a lord.

گفت ای سگ جد او را کشته‌ای ** تو غلامی خواجه زین رو گشته‌ای

You killed your master and carried off his property: God bath made manifest what happened to him.2475

خواجه را کشتی و بردی مال او ** کرد یزدان آشکارا حال او

Your wife was his handmaid; she has acted unjustly towards this same master.

آن زنت او را کنیزک بوده است ** با همین خواجه جفا بنموده است

Whatever (children) she bore to him, female or male—all of them from beginning to end are the property of the (master’s) heir.

هر چه زو زایید ماده یا که نر ** ملک وارث باشد آنها سر بسر

You are a slave: your gains and goods are his property. You demanded the Law: take the Law and go: ‘tis well.

تو غلامی کسب و کارت ملک اوست ** شرع جستی شرع بستان رو نکوست

You killed your master miserably by violence, (whilst) your master was crying for mercy on this very spot.

خواجه را کشتی باستم زار زار ** هم برینجا خواجه گویان زینهار

In your haste you hid the knife under the soil, because of the terrible apparition which you beheld.2480

کارد از اشتاب کردی زیر خاک ** از خیالی که بدیدی سهمناک

Lo, his head together with the knife is under the soil! Dig ye back the soil, thus!

نک سرش با کارد در زیر زمین ** باز کاوید این زمین را همچنین

On the knife, too, the name of this dog is written, (who) dealt with his master so deceitfully and injuriously.”

نام این سگ هم نبشته کارد بر ** کرد با خواجه چنین مکر و ضرر

They did even so (as he ordered), and when they cleft (the earth) they found in the soil the knife and the head.

همچنان کردند چون بشکافتند ** در زمین آن کارد و سر را یافتند

Thereupon tumultuous lamentation arose amongst the people:every one severed the girdle (of unbelief) from his waist.

ولوله در خلق افتاد آن زمان ** هر یکی زنار ببرید از میان

Alter that, he (David) said to him (the murderer), “Come,O demander of justice, (and) with that black face (of yours) receive the justice due to you!’2485

بعد از آن گفتش بیا ای دادخواه ** داد خود بستان بدان روی سیاه

How David, on whom be peace, ordered that retaliation should be taken on the murderer after his conviction.

قصاص فرمودن داود علیه السلام خونی را بعد از الزام حجت برو

He ordered retaliation (by killing him) with that same knife: how should contrivance deliver him from the knowledge of God?

هم بدان تیغش بفرمود او قصاص ** کی کند مکرش ز علم حق خلاص

Although God’s clemency bestows (many) kindnesses, yet when he (the sinner) has gone beyond bounds, He exposes (him).

حلم حق گرچه مواساها کند ** لیک چون از حد بشد پیدا کند

Blood sleepeth not: the desire to investigate and lay bare (discover the solution of) a difficulty falls into every heart.

خون نخسپد درفتد در هر دلی ** میل جست و جوی و کشف مشکلی

The craving prompted by the ordainment of the Lord of the Judgement springs up in the conscience of all and sundry

اقتضای داوری رب دین ** سر بر آرد از ضمیر آن و این

(So that they ask), “How was it with such-and-such? What happened to him? What became of him? “—just as the sown seed shoots up from the loam.2490

کان فلان چون شد چه شد حالش چه گشت ** همچنانک جوشد از گلزار کشت

Those inquiries, the pricking of (conscience in men’s) beans and the investigation and discussion, are the stirring of the (murdered man’s) blood.

جوشش خون باشد آن وا جستها ** خارش دلها و بحث و ماجرا

When the mystery of his (the murderer’s) case had been divulged, David’s miracles became doubly manifest

چونک پیداگشت سر کار او ** معجزه داود شد فاش و دوتو

All the people came bare-headed and cast their heads in prostration on the earth,

خلق جمله سر برهنه آمدند ** سر به سجده بر زمینها می‌زدند

(Saying), “We all have been (as those who are) blind from birth, (though) we have seen from thee marvels of a hundred kinds.

ما همه کوران اصلی بوده‌ایم ** از تو ما صد گون عجایب دیده‌ایم

The stone came to speech with thee overtly, and said, ‘Take me for Saul’s expedition (against Goliath)’;2495

سنگ با تو در سخن آمد شهیر ** کز برای غزو طالوتم بگیر

Thou camest with three pebbles and a sling and didst rout a hundred thousand men:

تو به سه سنگ و فلاخن آمدی ** صد هزاران مرد را بر هم زدی

Thy pebbles broke into a hundred thousand pieces, and each one drank the blood of an enemy.

سنگهایت صدهزاران پاره شد ** هر یکی هر خصم را خون‌خواره شد

Iron became as wax in thy hand when the (craft of) fashioning coats of mail was made known to thee.

آهن اندر دست تو چون موم شد ** چون زره‌سازی ترا معلوم شد

The mountains became thy thankful. accompanists: they chant the psalms with thee, as one who teaches the recitation of theQur’an.

کوهها با تو رسایل شد شکور ** با تو می‌خوانند چون مقری زبور

Hundreds of thousands of spiritual eyes were opened and through thy breath were made ready for (contemplation of) the Unseen;2500

صد هزاران چشم دل بگشاده شد ** از دم تو غیب را آماده شد

And that (miracle) is stronger than all those (others), for this one is lasting: thou bestowest the life that is enduring for ever.’!

و آن قوی‌تر زان همه کین دایمست ** زندگی بخشی که سرمد قایمست

This indeed is the soul of all miracles, that it (the miracle) should bestow everlasting life on the (spiritually) dead.

جان جمله‌ی معجزات اینست خود ** کو ببخشد مرده را جان ابد

The wicked man was killed and a whole world (of people) were quickened with life: every one became anew a (devoted) servant to God.

کشته شد ظالم جهانی زنده شد ** هر یکی از نو خدا را بنده شد

Explaining that Man’s fleshly soul is in the position of the murderer who had become a claimant on account of the cow, and that the slayer of the cow is the intellect, and that David is God or the Shaykh who is God’s vicar, by means, of whose strength and support it is possible to kill the wicked (murderer) and be enriched with (spiritual) daily bread that is not earned by labour and for which, there is no reckoning.